Quantum Transport: Introduction to Nanoscience
by Yuli V. Nazarov , Yaroslav M. BlanterEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-06-30
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing and diverse field of quantum transport, which is seemingly contains seemingly contradicting concepts - quantum and classical, conduction and insulating - within a single nanodevice.. The authors present the broad theoretical background, and explore the groundbreaking experiments that laid the foundations of the field. Ideal for graduate students, each section contains control questions and exercises to check readers' understanding of the topics covered. Its broad scope and in-depth analysis of selected topics will appeal to researchers and professionals working in nanoscience.
Author Biography
Yuli V. Nazarov is a theorist at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1985, and has worked in the field of quantum transport since the late 1980s. Yaroslav M. Blanter is an Associate Professor in the Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Delft University of Technology. Previous to this, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Karlsruhe and a Senior Assistant at the University of Geneva.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Scattering | p. 7 |
| Wave properties of electrons | p. 7 |
| Quantum contacts | p. 17 |
| Scattering matrix and the Landauer formula | p. 29 |
| Counting electrons | p. 41 |
| Multi-terminal circuits | p. 49 |
| Quantum interference | p. 63 |
| Time-dependent transport | p. 81 |
| Andreev scattering | p. 98 |
| Spin-dependent scattering | p. 114 |
| Classical and semiclassical transport | p. 124 |
| Disorder, averaging, and Ohm's law | p. 125 |
| Electron transport in solids | p. 130 |
| Semiclassical coherent transport | p. 137 |
| Current conservation and Kirchhoff rules | p. 155 |
| Reservoirs, nodes, and connectors | p. 165 |
| Ohm's law for transmission distribution | p. 175 |
| Spin transport | p. 187 |
| Circuit theory of superconductivity | p. 193 |
| Full counting statistics | p. 205 |
| Couloumb blockade | p. 211 |
| Charge quantization and charging energy | p. 212 |
| Single-electron transfers | p. 223 |
| Single-electron transport and manipulation | p. 237 |
| Co-tunneling | p. 248 |
| Macroscopic quantum mechanics | p. 264 |
| Josephson arrays | p. 278 |
| Superconducting islands beyond the Josephson limit | p. 287 |
| Randomness and interference | p. 299 |
| Random matrices | p. 299 |
| Energy-level statistics | p. 309 |
| Statistics of transmission eigenvalues | p. 324 |
| Interference corrections | p. 336 |
| Strong localization | p. 363 |
| Qubits and quantum dots | p. 374 |
| Quantum computers | p. 375 |
| Quantum goodies | p. 386 |
| Quantum manipulation | p. 397 |
| Quantum dots | p. 406 |
| Charge qubits | p. 427 |
| Phase and flux qubits | p. 436 |
| Spin qubits | p. 445 |
| Interaction, relaxation, and decoherence | p. 457 |
| Quantization of electric excitations | p. 458 |
| Dissipative quantum mechanics | p. 470 |
| Tunneling in an electromagnetic environment | p. 487 |
| Electrons moving in an environment | p. 499 |
| Weak interaction | p. 513 |
| Fermionic environment | p. 523 |
| Relaxation and decoherence of qubits | p. 538 |
| Relaxation and dephasing of electrons | p. 549 |
| Survival kit for advanced quantum mechanics | p. 562 |
| Survival kit for superconductivity | p. 566 |
| Unit conversion | p. 569 |
| References | p. 570 |
| Index | p. 577 |
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